Category: W

In England. An officer of the exchequer whose duty itwas to write upon the tallies the letters of tellers’ bills.

Waifs are goods found, but claimed by nobody; that of which every one waives the claim. Also, goods stolen and waived, or thrown away by the thief in his flight, for fear

In old English law. A wall; a sea-wall; a mound, bank, or wall erected in marshy districts as a protection against the sea. Spelman.

The owner of a warehouse; one who, as a business, and for hire, keeps and stores the goods of others.

ders v. Seelye, 105 U. S. 718, 26 L. Ed. 1217.

As designating a commodity or a subject of ownership, this term has thesame meaning in law as in common speech ; but in another sense, and especially in theplural, it may designate

Sax. A covenant or agreement Cowell.

A purging from a crime by the oaths of several persons, according totlie degree and quality of the accused. Cowell.

This word, though often used as equivalent to “as soon as,” is alsooften used where the time intended by it is, and will be until its arrival, or for some uncertainperiod, at

In old English law. A class of offenders who whitened stolen oxhidesand horse-hides so that they could not be known and identified.

merit. MeDaniel v. Johns, 45 Miss. 041. And see Jasper v. Jasper, 17 Or. 590, 22 Pac.152; Leathers v. Greenacre, 53 Me. 507; Cover v. Stem, 07 Md. 449, 10 Atl. 231,

To know; to learn; to be informed. Used only in the infinitive, to-cit, whichterm is equivalent to “that is to say,” “namely,” or “videlicet.”

Sax. In old records. A field. Spelman; Cowell.

In settling lay-days, or days of demurrage, sometimes the contractspecifies “working days;” In the computation, Sundays and custom-house holidays areexcluded. 1 Bell, Comm. 577.

The name of a writ which issues from the court of chancery,in aid of the execution of a judgment at law. to put the complainant into possession oflands adjudged to him, when

This Is thewrit of execution employed to enforce a judgment to recover the possession of land. Itcommands the sheriff to enter the land and give possession of it to the person entitledunder

In Scotch law. An officer nearly corresponding to anattorney at law, in English and American practice. “Writers to the signet,” called also”clerks to the signet” derive their name from the circumstance that

A written order issued and signed by a magistrate, directed to a peace officer or some other person specially named, and commanding him to arrest the body of a person named in

Kinship by descent from the sn

A creditor of a municipal corporation to whom is given a municipal warrant for the amount of his claim, because there are no funds in hand to pav it. Johnson v. New